single celled eukaryotes in animal and human health

Question 1

all living organisms interact with abiotic and biotic components, what are they?

Answer 1

abiotic: physical and chemical environment

biotic: other organisms

Question 2

intraspecific interactions

Answer 2

between individuals of the same species

Question 3

interspecific interactions

Answer 3

different species

Question 4

the symbiosis interactions “living together”

Answer 4

commensalism (one gains one neutral)
mutualism (both gain)
parasitism (one gains, one harmed)

Question 5

other types of interspecific interactions (other than the symbiosies)

Answer 5

neutralism (neitheir gain nor harmed)
competition (both harmed)
amensalism (one harmed one neutral)
predation/herbivory: (one harmed one gains)

Question 6

examples of mutualism

Answer 6

ants and thorny acacia; ants live in thorns and fight off herbivores and plant competitors,
finding nemo fish

Question 7

commensalism example

Answer 7

pigs and ciliate balantidium coli

Question 8

endoparasite

Answer 8

lives within host

Question 9

ectoparasite

Answer 9

lives on external surface of host

Question 10

malaria

Answer 10

apicomplexan, invades RBCs, human parasite, causes cells to become sticky
asexual reproduction in humans, sexual reproduction in mosquitos

Question 11

coccidiosis

Answer 11

apicomplexan, parasite of livestock, associated w stress and overcrowding, invades cells lining GI tract

Question 12

african trypanosomes

Answer 12

flagellate, transmitted by tsetse fly, affects humans as sleeping sickness and cattle as nagana, parasite lives in bloods, invades CNS, leads to neurological disease, always fatal once CNS invasion occurred